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Thursday, July 31, 2014

You thought you get only two new digis this week from My Whimsical Little World? Nu-uh! I present two bonus digi stamps for this week: soccer pals Mason and Samantha.They are all set to send a special greeting to family or friends. Let's see what MWLW design team members Louis and Carol created using the Mason and Samantha digi stamps. Also, check out the video on how to make a really cute and very easy Pop-up card featuring the Mason digi stamp.

Monday, July 28, 2014

Hi-Yahhhhh!
Another great start to our week with two new digis: Eloise and Max, our little MMA/Karate characters. They are all ready to get to work to wish someone a very happy birthday or just say hello. Below are some cute creations from our design team: Louise, Kimberly and Lisa. Click on the members names to see more projects they created with these adorable characters.

The paper that was used for the card featuring Max is digital paper that I purchased at Happy Heart Studios at Etsy.

SAVE THE DATEAugust 4 10-6pm

I hope you join the MWLW DT team on August 4 for the launch of the My Whimsical Little World Facebook group. Its going to be lots of fun! Many prizes (win a set of Copics), coloring challenges, free digis and lots of games are in store. So don't be shy, come over and say hi. :)

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Sunday, July 27, 2014

This
is the first time I have taken a digi and printed it big enough to fill
an 11x14 canvas. I am excited and cannot wait to see the finished
product. The hardest part was not being able to print it on watercolor
paper or, at the very least, mixed media paper. Alas, the printer would
not take it. so I printed it on paper that is a bit thinner than
cardstock but heavy enough to take some abuse of product.
It has also been a while since I painted and I will admit I was a bit
nervous that I would not do justice to Kristy's digi Sway Mae.

I
started to play with it using my water color crayons but the paper did
not like it...so I had to mix it up with some white acrylic paint to
toughen up the paper and then wait a bit for it to naturally dry so that
fibers would not break on me. Eventually I was able to work the
layers in. It felt great to paint again and it felt even greater that I
made Sway Mae look good.

Now this project is still not done...it takes time. A lot of layers and of course more color. I think I will pull out my Inktense blocks to add some depth. I hope you come back during the week to see what new digis I pulled from the Some Odd Girl shop to include on my canvas.

Just look at what some of the DT members created using these cool digis! Click on the DT members name to go to their blogs and see what other fun projects they created using Beach Wagon and Happy Camper digi stamps.

Keep reading to get your freebie this week to go along with the Happy Camper digi stamp!

Make sure to watch the video tutorial on how to design the Happy Camper card above in Silhouette Design Studio Edition program. I used the Great Outdoors digital papers from The Barn Swallow Design shop . I take you step by step on creating each element to finish this lovely card. Turn on those Cameos, we are going to make happy little trees. Then we will be printing and cutting.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

I really love this NEW stamp set of "School Supplies" from SomeOdd Girl. There are so many things you can do with them: cards,
jewellery, mix media and altering books. I've have been having fun
giving my journals a makeover, and this one is really cute! I used
the rulers to create a frame around the glue and crayon. I added the
happy face that Kristy provides as one of the stamps in the set to my
blue crayon. The pencil was busy writing a message below them. Both
sentiments are from the set and I really like that I could use them
both on one project! Cute back-to-school School Supplies stamp set!

Monday, July 14, 2014

The weeks are flying by and for once I am actually excited about that!

Every week My Whimsical Little World features two or three NEW digi releases. This weekMWLW is releasing Summer Friends Marigold, Phoebe, and Surfer Kody. I
don't know where you are, but over here in the valley it is starting
to get really hot, and the beach is starting to look like a great
idea! :) I think our DT members have the same idea..to the beach! :)

Just look at the wonderful creations they have made using Summer
Friends collection! From mix media , cards and scrapbook layout! Make sure to hop on over to their blogs to see more inspiration using Marigold, Phoebe. and Surfer Kody.

How cute is this NEW stamp from Some Odd Girl! Teacher Mae is
adorable! I just had to make something special with her. Of course I
couldn't make just one item. LOL I made two! :)
I love to draw and have many pencils, so I made myself a pencil case
holder for all my favorite pencils. I used Teacher Mae and two of the
sentiments on my project. I used the "A+" to stamp the pencil case; it
needed something more. :) I also used the ruler stamp (included in
the stamp set) to ground her. I didn't want to add too many
embellishments, because I would be opening and closing this pencil
case a lot. However, I could not resist adding dots. How can you not
add colorful little dots? They are too cute! :) I also made a
matching bookmark to keep my place. I used another of the sentiments
form the stamp set and stamped the background with the ruler stamp as
well as adding some dimension by adding a ruler under Teacher Mae.

Hope you like what I created!

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am! Beyond excited! My Whimsical Little World is taking the digital jump and no longer hoarding art. :) This is a whole new world for me and the plan is to go slow and steady. Each week I plan to bring you digital images to use in your card making, scrapbooking or even altered art. You can find my digis in the sister store Paola's Papers at Etsy. What makes this venture even more exciting is working with these very talented and inspiring women. Without further ado, I would like to introduce the first My Whimsical Little World Design Team 2014!

Just click on the the team members names or images to visit their blogs.

Design Team Coordinator

Hi! My name is Amanda. I
am a counselor, mediator, taxi driver, nurse, cheerleader, teacher,
stylist, photographer, chef and maid to 3 fantastic children, ages 3, 4
and 8. My husband and I just celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary.
We got married 3 days shy of our 10 year anniversary so it's our ongoing
tradition to still celebrate both days
I have been scrapbooking since the birth of our oldest child, though it
has evolved immensely since the purchase of our home 3 years ago where I
now have a small but extremely useful craftroom. I am very much a
right-brained type of person, as aside from everything previously
mentioned, I have also been a hairstylist for the past 5 years. I guess
my love for all things creative is because there is no right or wrong
and there is ALWAYS room to grow and new techniques to learn.

Design Team

Hi! My name is Marilyn Provost, I am 29 years old and I live near
Montréal, Québec, Canada. I have been married for 3 years and we have 2
dogs and 3 cats! I have been scrapbooking since 2007 and love every
minute of it! I started making mostly scrapbook pages and then
discovered card making and became a Stampin' Up! demonstrator for about 4
years. I have been on a store DT in Québec for 3 years but I am now a
DT member for an online store called Karma Scrapbooking. I am also a DT
member for Some Odd Girl Stamps! I am so happy to join this incredible
team and to work with Paola! I like to put a lot of layers and
embellishments on my cards and I am a very colorful girl! I love
everything flowers, die cutting (with my beloved cameo!) and Copic
markers! I hope I will inspire you with my cards and projects!!!

My name is Martha, I'm from Alberta, Canada, I'm married to the love of my life who is very supportive of my very expensive hobby! I have two beautiful babies my son Sebastian and my daughter Trinity. I have dabbled in scrapbooking/card making since I was about sixteen, but I really got serious about it after I had my daughter 15wks early, she was such a miracle that I wanted to document her journey thru the Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit. After that I started making very simple cards that would take me hours to make, but the look of pure joy that people give you after receiving a handmade card is worth every second! I bought my first four Copics after stumbling upon a beginners Copic coloring class while I was shopping at my local scrapbook store....and the rest is as they say history! So I hope you enjoy my creations and pop on by my blog for a visit.

Hi I'm Louise and I am an avid crafter from the UK.
I
started crafting about 4 years ago - it all started when I couldn't
find a card I liked for my friend and decided that I could do better
myself!
My main crafty passions are digi stamps, Promarkers and designer papers.

My name is Angie Ha. I am from Lancaster, PA. I'm married to a wonderful
husband who has always encouraged my crafting (especially since it
keeps me busy and gives him more time to play computer games ;)). I've
been paper crafting since college, wow...over ten years now, starting
with scrapbooking but now focusing on cards and an occasional mixed
media. I work as a medical technologist in a local hospital. When I'm
not playing in my craft room, I love reading, crocheting/knitting, and
playing pretty much any super Mario video game.

Hi everyone, my name is Karen Hanson, and I am the crafter behind ScrappyCanuck Studios.
First and foremost, I am a mom of two adorable little girls and wife
to an equally cute (and creative, I might add) hubby!
I originally started my blog as a way of keeping myself “honest” about
my crafting! I had received a Cricut as a Mother’s Day gift, and wanted
to make sure that I actually used it. I was hoping my online scrapping
friends could help encourage me to “keep on crafting, just keep
crafting!” Things grew from there, as did my scrapping and crafting!
I've worked on a number of design teams, and am looking forward to
working with this talented group of crafters.

Hi! My name is Kimberly. I have been paper crafting for several years now.
I have a simplistic nature about my designs, but I am working to change
some (yes, only some) of that each time I sit down to craft. Old habits
die hard when it comes to my crafting. I enjoy trying new tips and
techniques, and find myself doing a lot of research looking for
something new to add to my designs. I have a cameo and a cricut, and
love to design with both of them. The capabilities are simply endless
when you have the time to work the software. I dabble in some mixed
media art, do some vinyl, and some (though very little) painting on
canvas as well. I really do like to try it all. I love working with
digi’s and use a multitude of methods to color them. I have tried just
plain colored pencils, prisma colored pencils, and even watercolor
pencils and crayons. I have a goal to teach myself how to color digi’s
using charcoal pencils.
I am very excited to work with Paola and the wonderful digi’s at My Whimsical Little World.

And then there is me, Paola. Pronounced Paula. :) Head on over to Meet The Artist, me. :) and don't be shy, please say hi. :)

Come back July 14 when My Whimsical Little World releases "Summer Friends" and see what the design team members create with them.

Monday, July 7, 2014

My Whimsical Little World has a new release for you this week. Yay! Bubble Gum Tula and her side kick Gus are super sweet!
You're only as young as you feel! So true Tula. :) Check out these cute cards using Tula & Gus. Such a fun digi to color up. Love how Marilyn used Stickles for the bubble gum and how she layered her gorgeous card. Stop by her blog to see more of her beautiful creations, just click her name.

The altered notebook is actually a recycled notebook that I picked up in Chapters a while back ago. I loved the lined paper inside but was not crazy over the cover. However, I knew that I could always change it up. I really wanted to make this a playful cover and just go nuts with angles. I used Day Dreamer paper pad (In stock at My Whimsical Little World) cheerful and playful as well, it was the perfect paper for the job.

This paper made it super easy to select papers. Typically all the paper in a pad should go together, but there some papers that go better together while others do not. The Day Dreamer paper pad has a strip of paper at the top of the paper that shows you which paper will coordinate nicely. I love it when I am not wasting time in the studio deciding which papers will be well suited. Its hard. I love them all! LOL :)

Saturday, July 5, 2014

I typically do not use flowers in my cards, however this time I stepped out of my comfort zone and bought some flowers to embellish my card. I think it's pretty. :)

I used Gwen in Bloom clear stamp and colored her with my Copics. I also used the paper from the blog hop with Ruby Rock-It. Such fun paper! I used the sequin triangles from the Odds & Ends shop too! The flowers were purchased at Michaels from recollections line.

Not bad for a first time playing with this type of flowers. Practice makes perfect! :)

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I'm a mom to 4 amazing kids and a wife to an incredibly handsome man! Owner of My Whimsical Little World Art Studio. In the spring of 2013 I became a Certified Copic Designer and a Copic Dealer. I teach mix media, drawing, card design and of course we have many classes on Copic coloring. I am also very excited as this year I have expanded the studio and now carry scrapbooking/crafting supplies.